Now, John, that's something I find incomprehensible here in the UK. People keep asking me if I consider myself to be Welsh or Canadian. They don't 'get it' that I'm quite happy being both. Similarly, you get the Media doing a vox pop in the streets, asking if you consider yourself Welsh, British or European; what's with the "or"? Canadians are quite happy being hyphenated; when I was a kid my friends were Romanian-Canadian, Italian-Canadian, French-Canadian, Hungarian-Canadian (and then me, Welsh-Canadian). And I'm sure the songs I learned reflected those hyphenations.

Eve, I'm glad that made sense. I was afraid that maybe it didn't. I quite like the idea that our identity is still fluid (within parameters). It's like we haven't so much nailed our colours (coloUrs) to the mast as hung our washing out to air.

sian